The state chronicle., 1887-11-10
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.


| were complete failure and the Commis
| sioners refused to take them
-. Mr.. A. X Fleming and Mr. Lynch
Were accidentally drowned in a mill pond
| III Vance county last Saturday night.
% Mrs W. H Vanderbilt and family,
| OF New York, have engaged rooms for IL
term of several months at Battery Park
Hotel, Asheville.
| ... The Recorder says that Durham
sells one third more tobacco than any 9th
er place in the State. It says figures
prove it.
49,. Trains were delayed So hours on the
W. n. Q. K. K. by leave in in the
| Swannanoa tunnel Nobody was hurt.
| Trains run via Spartansb urg to Asheville.
49,. Winton Daily: 1t is reported hat
the Richmond Il Dttnville Company are
thinking building anoi her track from
! Danyille TO Charlotte, making a double
track.
| -. Rev. J. \. Leslie was out hunting
near Tarboro. The horse ran away. Mr..
| Leslie's foot was caught and the bones
above the ankle were badly broken and
| crushed.
| -. The NavasSO GuanO Company of
! Wilmington, gave the Messenger a pump
| kin measuring 514 inches around sides, %
inches around iengthways, and weighing
50 pounds.
| 49, The first dirt was thrown on the
Durham & Northern Railroad by Mayor
Freeland and Chairman Angler Tuesday,
amid cheers and hurrahs. Speeches We're
made. Hurrah for Durham
| Judge Gllmer at Forsyth court, has
reduced the sentence of ". 5 Hay To six
months Imprisonment and w. \. Whit :
| kers fine to 5000. They were con> iced
of fighting and shooting.
80. II. SIMPSONS plug tobacco factory
in Reidsville was burned Monday morning.
together with large leaf house full Of to-
bacco, and two small buildings The loss
was $4,000 partially covered by in
surance.
.. Mrs. Charles Newton, of Falk and,
Pitt county, placed her baby, about year
old, in a chair and left the room for a few
moments. When she returned She found
her child hanging from the chair by the
neck, and dead. In falling the neck had
been broken Tarboro SoutherneI.
| " The Farmers Alliance of Moore
| county has endorsed the Sandford Express
as the organ of the Moore county Alliance
| This is but one way the Scotch have Of eX-
pressing their appreciation of the Express.
| 1t is an honor to the county IN which it Is
published.
| ....P. Llnnehan Il Co., of Raleigh,
have been awarded the contract to build
! twenty-five miles of the Duiham and
| Northern railroad twelve miles leading
! from Durham and ten from Henderson.
! Mr.. Y. Clifton, a noted bridge builder. is
now on line of route Durham Recorder.
-. The Charlotte Chronicle calls loudly
for a railroad from Charlotte to Sanford
to connect With the G. T. 4 l. v K r.
! Such road would pass near Pioneer
Mills in Cabarrus county Biz Lick and
! Albemarle IL Stanly, through Troy III
! Montgomery. and through Carthage in
Moore.
The Fayetteville Observer SAYS that
/ the gold medal awarded at the last State
/ Fair to Tohay Vineyard makes the sixth
/ gold medal that has been awarded to this
celebrated vineyard, The CHRoNCLE joins
/ the Observer III rejoicing to know that
such merits has been bestowed on one of
our largest home enterpris,
. In the series Of lectures TO be given
at Trinity College Prof. J d. Hodges Will
/ late Rev Dr. b. Craven" This is great
theme. and Prof Hodges intimate ac-
/ quaintance with the man and his work
makes him TIE man to tell the story of his
! life to present Trinity students
/ - Gentlemen repre- -enting he Penn
| sylvania r. K. anG the Norfolk and South
/ ern 4. r., were in New Berne this week
and were looking into the feasibility of a
new coast line of railway in the South.
1 The Journal was glad to see them in New
/ Berne because 10 see them around is apt
/ to make one think there is something in
! the wind for better or worse
... At q meeting of the stockholders of
I the +. c. Fair and Stock Association Fri
\ day night Dr. NJ T. Robinson was elected
7 president, J w Lamb and Thomas Ed
mundson vice presidents and J b. Whita
/ ker, Jr secretary They resolved to hold
! the Fair as usual next Fall, and in the
meantime to increase the capital stock.
4 GOldsboro Argus.
- The long contested litigation be-
tween Mr. W H. Arlington and Mrs
/ Fatte D. B. Arlington, of Raleigh grow
/ ing out of divorce, was settled at Vance
Court last week. Ii involved the sum of
/ 500, 600 and Mrs Arlington and her
children Were the successful litigants.
| This case was begun in 1879 in Nash Court
and has just been settled.
The Walnut Cove and Pilot Noun
tain extension is beginning to tell Last
week Messrs A. +. Rankin d Go. received
in one shipment from that point twenty
nine crates Of cabbage and many bal rels
we viii have them) will make Us indepen-
dent OF Northern cabbage, apples, butter,
&c. = Fayetteville Observer.
-. The Lenoir Topic says Mr.. a. a.
Shuford, Of Hickory, chaperoned six ladies
to the Atlanta exposition successfully and
without a single mshap and then had the
miserable luck to have his pocket picked
of fine gold watch near GastOnia. The
Topic says this is as bad as Wade lIamp-
ton, who went through the war unscratch-
ed and afterwards had one Of his legs
kicked off by a mule.
.. Luke Russell, a respectable young
farmer, son of +. y. Russell, living near
Cableston, Craven county, was shot and
killed Nov. end by Bill Williams, colored.
Russell went with a posse of citizens to
arrest Williams for stealing cotton. He
started up into the second story of an ont
building to search for Williams, when the
latter fred a load from a gun into his
breast. Williams made his escape, and
Russell died in half an hour.
"A friend writing from Yadkin Col
lege says: The damage done our College
by the recent storm has been fully repair
ed and the school is again in its old quar-
ters. Farmers are very much behind hand
with their wheat sowing owing to the eK-
cesSive rains There is much of the cot
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